Image reading apparatus and method, and computer-readable recording medium

摘要

An image reading apparatus includes a reading image unit that reads an image data of a document; a memory that writes the image data obtained by the reading image unit in a space region of the memory; a memory managing unit that determines whether the space region larger than a predetermined memory size of the memory exists; and a reading operation control unit that manages reading image operation and interruption of the reading image unit for a reading section of the document having a unit data size corresponding to an amount of the image data being writable in the predetermined memory size; wherein the memory management determines whether or not the space region larger than the predetermined memory size exists in the memory.